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Rice Jelly

Rice jelly is a dessert made by cooking soaked rice in water until thick, then served with powdered sugar and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Rice Jelly

Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Rice Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Wash the rice and soak it in 1 cup of water for 2 hours.

  2. Bring 1 quart of water to a boil.

  3. Add the soaked rice and its water to the boiling water.

  4. Boil for 45 minutes, then strain through a muslin bag.

Set and serve

  1. Let it cool and thicken, then serve with powdered sugar and cream.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Rice + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Rice + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,744 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Rice
Its starch thickens as it cooks, then sets into a soft jelly as it cools.
Water
Hydrates the rice so its starch releases and the liquid carries the body of the jelly.

The step that matters

Let it cool and thicken. The starch released from the rice gels as the liquid cools, so the jelly firms only when given time to rest. Serving it too early leaves it runny.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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